mcdowall

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by mcdowall 5y ago
I similarly spent a few years working in this space (TfL, digitising their data and website etc). It always struck me just how nuts the weekly meetings between different station operators and TOCS within the GLA would be, essentially a sho
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by mcdowall 6y ago
The key differentiator here is the storage requirements (2-8c ‘normal refrigerator’). That’s much more accessible to developing / low GDP countries as opposed the cumbersome and expensive storage requirements of the other two.
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by mcdowall 8y ago
I've been contracting for 8 years now. I'd recommend CWjobs / ContractRecruit and PurelyIT - just search and refine based on location / skills / required rate.
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by mcdowall 8y ago
Jaron Lainer - Who Owns the Future is a great read on the topic of owning and monetising ones data.
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by mcdowall 9y ago
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
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by mcdowall 9y ago
The book ‘Sapiens’ by Yuval Harari talks exactly to this point. A really excellent read.
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by mcdowall 9y ago
I’ve worked on this in London recently, presenting my working concept (and months of data in tableau by location behind it) at a few events. The industry is a few years off it, particularly the physical tech, which would require digital scr
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by mcdowall 10y ago
I'd classify it into three groups for the UK... Perm - Mid level benefits + Pay (maybe options in a startup) Contractor - Individual with their own Ltd company, pays less tax and much higher take home pay but without any benefits. Cons
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by mcdowall 10y ago
Totally agree with you here. The contracting market in the UK (particularly London) is much more lucrative than relative permanent roles, even when their benefits are taken into account. It's actually more lucrative on tax here, thou
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David Bowie, an Internet pioneer(bbc.co.uk)
140 points by mcdowall 11y ago|33 comments
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by mcdowall 12y ago
I've been using Momondo recently, which has all of these tools and a much better UX. This just feels like a re skin of the ITA site and a bit of a poor effort at that.
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by mcdowall 12y ago
I was in Belize a few years ago and think I had Lobster for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, so cheap!
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by mcdowall 12y ago
It's on the way. The beta was about for 9mths or so
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by mcdowall 12y ago
From the comments I'm trying to work out who you are, struggling tho!
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Transport for London – New responsive website(tfl.gov.uk)
79 points by mcdowall 12y ago|55 comments
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by mcdowall 13y ago
This seems a rather odd article, there are many useful sites (particularly in London) that enable you to search for properties in a much smarter way these days, check out the tools on www.findproperly.com , find spare rooms on www.spareroom
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by mcdowall 13y ago
I'd second the UX suggestion, it's always the role that is difficult to fill in teams and only going to grow in demand.
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by mcdowall 13y ago
It should be great!. I'm not overly concerned, we had our own riots and disruptions prior to the Olympics in 2012 here but when it got to the point of the event common sense prevailed and everyone seemed to get behind it. I was in Ban
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by mcdowall 13y ago
UK, Contractor. A 4 week long trip every 6months or so, though the last trip was 10 weeks. 3 to 4 weekend city breaks per year, most usually geared around a sporting event, festival or a friends Stag/Bachelor party. Next big trip is a
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by mcdowall 13y ago
I've been doing the same for the last 3 years, albeit not on the same scale. I contract every 6 months and then take a month or so off until like you I find my brain starting to feel neglected. I try to fit in a few weekend trips to
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by mcdowall 13y ago
In the last year I've taken about 10 weeks vacation, travelled all across the States, Hawaiian Islands, Fijian Islands (Yasawa's), Australia, Sweden and Snowboarding twice. Contracting (think on site day rate) has allowed me to do
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by mcdowall 13y ago
I hadn't heard of Vayable before but will definitely consider some of the tours I've discovered for the month in Brazil at the World Cup now.
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by mcdowall 13y ago
I couldn't work out on your site if these are Perm roles or Contract, specifically the Tech PM one?
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by mcdowall 13y ago
I think professionalism bores down to basic communication skills, be punctual, responsive and considerate. I've recently hired 2 "developers" from the freelancer HN thread to find them utterly unprofessional, requiring consta
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by mcdowall 13y ago
I find lists like this and Sivers.org/book very useful for finding new reading material, some good ones I've read this year (in no particular order); Who owns the future - Jaron Lanier Canoeing the Congo - Phil Harwood Margaret Th
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by mcdowall 13y ago
I can resonate with this so much, I travelled CR last year for a month and loved it. I've just got back from 3 mths travelling the States, Hawaii, Fiji and Aus to do exactly the same, London had too many distractions and whilst the sal
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by mcdowall 13y ago
I spent a month in CR last year, for such a small country it puts the UK to shame, I rarely found myself out of 3G coverage, even up in the cloud forest!. Compare that to my usual South Coast train commute to London where I'm lucky if
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by mcdowall 13y ago
I wouldn't limit that to developing nations, pretty much everyone I know uses WhatsApp in the UK, simply because mobile coverage is so poor that it's easier to send a Whatsapp than it is to send an SMS. I seriously hope it doesn&#
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Transport for London launch fully responsive redesign(beta.tfl.gov.uk)
2 points by mcdowall 13y ago|0 comments
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by mcdowall 13y ago
I noticed that in your post as well just now, "What you can see here is the result of many hours of work from Pete and I, ranging from programming time, to nearly giving up trying to understand the algorithms involved, to hours spent m

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